Glossary
English is the primary technical language. Burmese terms and explanations will be added only after technical review — no unattended machine translation.
- Characteristic value
- A representative value of an action or material property before partial factors are applied.
- Comment-response log
- A table listing each reviewer comment, your response, and where the calculation or drawing was changed.
- Design basis
- A short statement of scope, governing documents and editions, key inputs, assumptions and how the work will be checked.
- Design groundwater level
- The water level adopted for a design situation, set by the design criteria and project information — not chosen by a calculator.
- Load take-off
- A schedule of loads computed from drawings, element by element, passed to the designer.
- mSHD
- Metres above Singapore Height Datum — the reference datum for levels in Singapore.
- Partial factor
- A multiplier applied to characteristic actions or resistances in a design combination. Apply once only.
- Resultant
- A single force equivalent to a distributed pressure, with its magnitude and line of action.
- Review level
- An approved monitoring threshold that triggers a defined response. Taken from the approved instrumentation plan.
- Revision
- A controlled change to a calculation or drawing, identified by a letter or number, date and description.